Zoltan Papp

Sr VMware Engineer, Technology Lead

Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

About

Focusing purely on VMware enterprise virtualization and related solutions offered by VMware, with 19 years of proven total IT experience so far; with excellent work-ethics, exceptional self-motivation, proactive attitude and thoroughness.

Experience

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific ()
    • Sr VMware Engineer, Technology Lead (Core Engineering)
      Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    • Sr VMware Engineer, Technology Lead (System Reliability)
      Apr 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Sr VMware Engineer, Systems Infrastructure (System Reliability)
      May 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr

      • VMware technology evangelist • Primarily worked on VMware platform related high complexity engineering tasks and various projects (picking up heavy tasks from which others are afraid of :)) • Provided mentorship for colleagues on VMware related troubleshooting; Owner and primary (heavy) contributor of global team wide technical knowledgebase based on OneNote • SME of VMware Site Recovery Manager and Disaster Recovery; key role in designing and managing DR environments often beyond VMware scope aswell by coordinating all of the technical teams during DR exercises • Worked with VMware solutions: vROps On-Prem and vROps Cloud (vRealize/Aria suite), Skyline, vSphere 6.x-7.0, VMC/SDDC, HCX, vSAN • Working with HPE and DELL servers, HPE Nimble dHCI, Dell VxRail • Key role in VMware related technical decision making and project technical coordination: VMSA security vulnerabilities; VMware platform related engineering or architecting oriented projects and activities • Performing vCenter and ESXi host upgrades, resolving vCenter 7.x upgrades pre-requisites and clearing blockers, like ELM (linked mode) removal and stale objects cleanup, Utilizing jXplorer as part of advanced troubleshootings, PowerCLI (powershell based) scripting for automating repetitive or tasks at scale

  • Remote Access Engineer at Morgan Stanley
    Nov 2020 - Apr 2021 · 6 mos

    Primarily worked on creating PowerShell based customized automation packages for various Citrix product deployments and pre-configurations

  • IT Infrastructure Technical Architect at OTP Bank
    Jul 2020 - Oct 2020 · 4 mos

    IT Infrastructure Technical Architect (TA), (Detailed/Depth Level Design) at OTP Bank (with IDBC Creative Solutions as contractor) • Worked on Detailed Level Designs (Low level)

  • Advisory IT Specialist (VMware/Cisco UCS L3 Project Engineer) at IBM
    Apr 2020 - Jun 2020 · 3 mos

    Worked on various projects primarily on Cisco UCSM as L3 SME

  • Windows and VMware Engineer at European Central Bank
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

    "Enterprise Computing Platform (ECP) Windows/VMware Engineer" at ECB - European Central Bank (with Unisys as MSP) • Performing various VMware infrastructure platform engineering tasks, L3 support for over 8k servers, creating new clusters from A to Z • Working with vSphere 5.5.x/6.5.x (also took several trainings), also working with Zerto • Getting familier with Cisco UCS (also took a training), working with UCSB-B200-M4/M5 blades • Participation in VMware infrastructure related DR exercises and patching activities • Creating a comprehensive knowledgebase from ground zero, disseminating of knowledge amongst colleagues, documenting and standardizing processes • Organizing handover activities for L1/L2 teams to offload my team from activities requiring less experience • Providing rotational oncall support • Active participation in VMware platform related smaller projects, project owner for replacing self-signed certs with VMCA • Demonstrating a wide technical mindset in complex problem isolation and overall resolution capabilities • Escalation to Vendor (L4) support when required to ensure SLAs are met (mostly VMware) • Effective troubleshooting related collaborations with Network and Storage teams • Working with ITSM (HP Service Manager); ITSP; ServiceNow ticketing systems and Jira for project management activities • Working with Microsoft Failover Clustering based projects • Working on PKI related systems • Extremely confidential information security operations • Frequent communication in English with colleagues